PIX 506 and Windows 2000 VPN Client

[Devildoc007]

Hello,

Can someone help me answer this question? I am trying to connect a Windows 2000 SP4 client to a PIX firewall via a VPN connection using L2TP/IPSec. I have Cisco PIX 506 ver 6.3(3). Can I use the Micrsoft Windows 2000 native L2TP/IPSec client to connect to the PIX 506 using pre-shared key?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

JD

[sachinraja]

Hello,

You can try using the win 2000 L2TP/IPSEC client to connect to the PIX firewall. It should work. Below are the sample configurations of the PIX & the end system.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk583/tk372/technologies_configuration_example09186a00800942ad.shtml

You can use pre-shared keys instead of CA's. Why dont you directly install a Cisco VPN client and avoid all these complexities ?

All the best !!

[Devildoc007]

Thanks for the reply and the link.

I have tried to configure my PIX using the information from that link but it did not work I got an error on my Windows 2000 client when trying to connect to the PIX outer interface. The error states "encryption failed because no valid certificate was found".

I didn't configure the PIX to use certificate for authentication, so i don't know why it gave me that error message.

Is there any special tweak that i have to perform on my Windows 2000 client to connect to the PIX via L2TP/IPSec?

As for the CVPN client, i would use it but i don't have it.

JD